"In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game."

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the st…"

"One did not go to Ebbets Field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction, and a wonder of the sociological …"

"He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is …"

"Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty he perishes as an at…"

"One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years."

"That morning began with wind and hairy clouds. It was late March and the day rose brisk and uncertain, with gusts sug…"

"It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were sil…"

"One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all."

"At a point of life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to…"